Youth Developmental Enterprises (Y.D.E.)
During the Lanai Plantation history, the company regularly contracted with teenagers during the summer break to come help with the harvest during the peak summer season. In addition to island youth, during the 1960s-1970s, Dole Pineapple/Castle & Cooke contracted with the Youth Developmental Enterprises (Y.D.E.) brand of the Mormon Church to engage Mormon youth in work on Lanai.
The teens arrived with who knows what on their mind about an experience in far away Hawaii, and found themselves on a remote island, living in dorms, and out in the fields doing hoe hana (weeding with a hoe), picking and all manner of work.
Team leaders with the Mormon youth crew, like Steve Haymore, then 24, kept the teens organized, rising for work in the early a.m., getting to the cafeteria for meals, to the labor yard for transportation to the work sites, and made sure that the youth got down to the island beaches and swimming spots.
The photos above, contributed by Steve Haymore document his youth crew's work and play on Lanai in 1974. (Donated Oct. 12 2010).
Palawai Mormon Experiment